Same Time Next Year

When they first meet, George (Stan Gill) and Doris (Laura Hanson) are both staying at a hotel sans spouses. They chat over drinks, and next thing you know, its morning and the two besotted/horrified hookup-ees are scrambling to put their clothes back on. Such is the setup for Bernard Slades 1975 chestnut Same Time Next Year (through June 28), a romantic comedy that follows a 25-year love affair in the same hotel room. The only change of scenery in the 90-minute production is the shifting context of the two lovers lives over the decades. (But youd be amazed at how different that same hotel room can look to an outsider when Georges mistress shows up pregnant.) A play about adultery may seem like a reach for a playwright with such a wholesome TV resume (Slade wrote for Bewitched and The Partridge Family), but George and Doris affair is more about companionship than sex. You find yourself pulling for them, even if they are dirty rotten cheaters. SecondStory Repertory, 16587 N.E. 74th St. (Redmond), 425-881-6777, www.secondstoryrep.org. $18$25. 2:15 p.m. (Also: 8:15 p.m. Fri.Sat. Ends June 28.) ERIKA HOBART